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Lawsuit: McDonald's policies 'overtly racist,' 'purged' African Americans from leadership, franchisee ranks
The lawsuit asserts McDonald's focused on "diversity," but was "hostile" to African American customers, franchisees and corporate executives.
Class action: Franciscan Health, Olympia Fields medical practice lost boxes of records for 22K patients
A Homewood woman has filed a class action lawsuit against the Franciscan Health system and an Olympia Fields-based medical group, accusing them of allowing the personal data of more than 22,000 patients to be breached when boxes of documents went missing from a storage facility.
Class actions ask court to void workers' comp lawsuit loans, order Oasis, E-Z Case Loans to repay borrowers
The lenders allegedly charged 'outrageous' interest rates on loans issued allegedly in violation of Illinois' workers' comp law, the lawsuits say.
Judge OKs $135M deal to end class actions vs Navistar over Maxxforce engine; Lawyers to get $36M
Truck owners and lessors could get $2,500 per truck; up to $15,000 for repairs; or $10,000 rebate toward purchase of new truck
Lawsuit: American Airlines falsely accused man of intoxication, bomb threat, cost him job
A Chicago man has filed a defamation lawsuit against American Airlines, saying he lost his job after the airline allegedly kicked him off his flight and then allegedly falsely told federal airport security officials he had been intoxicated and had expressed a bomb threat.
Judge forecloses Cook County's bid to renew tax loss claims vs Bank of America in discriminatory lending lawsuit
The judge says the county's tax loss claims remain 'too remote' to fix on Bank of America.
Judge blocks 3 firms from trying to pick off clients from broiler chicken class action
The order says The Coffman Firm; Kaplan Fox and Kilsheimer; and Williams Montgomery and John, sent 'misleading, slanted and potentially confusing' letters to supermarkets and others suing chicken producers over prices
Class action: Cook Courts Clerk charging illegal fees to people seeking child support enforcement
A new class action lawsuit has accused the Cook County Circuit Clerk’s office of charging illegal fees to people filing petitions in Cook County court to enforce child support orders.
IL Supreme Court: State law, home rule doesn't give Chicago power to slap 'unlimited taxes' on tobacco
The city of Chicago's 2016 tobacco products tax has been struck down as illegal.
Investors bring class action vs Exelon over alleged corrupt ComEd lobbying using Madigan associates
A group of Exelon investors have filed suit against the parent company of electrical utility ComEd, asserting the company’s potentially corrupt state lobbying activities in Springfield artificially inflated the company’s stock price, setting investors up for losses when the federal investigation into those activities came to light.
McDonald's scores key wins in 'joint employer' legal battle, but war continues in attempt to unionize franchise shops
McDonald's scores key wins in 'joint employer' legal battle, but war continues in attempt to unionize franchise shops
Ousted megachurch pastor accuses radio host 'Mancow' of defamation for calling him a 'con man,' fabricating stories
Harvest Bible founder James MacDonald has accused radio host "Mancow" Muller of smearing his reputation and leading to his termination
Judge trashes blind woman's ADA lawsuit vs Wendy's over late-night drive-thru hours
The judge said she is denied access to the drive-thru late at night, the same as any other pedestrian attempting to walk through the drive-thru.
'Public nuisance' personal injury suits vs Sterigenics over emissions surge again
The number of lawsuits has again surged against Sterigenics, even as the company seeks to dismiss them by asserting the public nuisance suits are thwarted by federal and state emissions regulation.
Challenge filed vs judicial candidacy of lawyer who represented Burge, using Irish maiden name on ballot
A Chicago lawyer, who has defended police officers against misconduct charges, including Jon Burge, is seeking election as a Cook County judge, has been accused of attempting to use her Irish-sounding maiden name to confuse voters.
Appeals panel bags class action vs Fannie May over 'slack fill' candy packaging
Saying customers got the chocolate candy they paid for, a federal appeals court has boxed up a class action lawsuit against Fannie May, which had accused the candymaker of under filling its candy packages.
Cook County, with Madison, St. Clair, land at No. 7 on list of America's worst 'Judicial Hellholes'
Cook County’s courts have again landed on a familiar list, receiving a prime ranking on the list of America’s worst “judicial hellholes.”
Cook County says raising taxes would hurt economy; Bank of America owes for county tax losses from 'discriminatory' lending
Cook County says it lost potential tax money during the foreclosure crisis, so it doesn't matter if its actual tax collections didn't drop. It wants Bank of America to pay, because it blames some of the foreclosures on alleged discriminatory lending practices.
Sterigenics: Personal injury lawsuits should be doomed by EPA, other government regulation of EtO emissions
Sterigenics has asked a Cook County judge to dismiss a host of personal injury lawsuits against it, asserting the law does not allow it to be sued for its emissions of ethylene oxide, because the emissions were regulated by the government
Appeals brief: Judge wrongly cut short taxpayer suit vs IL over constitutionality of $14B bond issues
An Illinois state appeals court has been asked to decide if a judge in Springfield improperly ducked the question of whether state lawmakers illegally borrowed billions of dollars to pay down bills, when such actions may be forbidden by the Illinois state constitution.